Toyota Yaris
02-05-2008, 01:41 AM
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: home
Posts: 1,377
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Vehicle: car
So I thought that some people on this forums get a little overzealous and dumb when it comes to things, but wow... Here's a whole new world. lol
A very good friend of mine bought a Toyota Yaris (She's a girl, not into tuning in the slightest, its a slushbox anyways). So I was on the phone with her tonight and we've been joking around about her car turning into a tuner car. Right now she is making dinner for herself and told me she'll call me back and I should look for parts for her, jokingly of course.
Well... I got bored. So I started looking at parts. Intakes, headers, exhaust, and of course, the turbo option.
I found myself at a Yaris forum. I tried finding anyone who has turboed their yaris. I found one particular thread that just made me quit searching....
**ahem**
210HP... Be prepared for new Internals (Cams, Pistons) New Clutch and Flywheel... Along with the Turbo, Inter-cooler, Cold Air Intake, Pipes, Coil-Overs, Dampers, Rims, Tires, LSD, ECU retard, and a new engine after you blow the car up your first day at the Track!
210HP on a car that weighs less then a TON...
Your looking at about $8,000 - $10,000
Plus the price of the car...$13,000ish
$21 - $23 Grand
Next time buy a TC!
I want to cry. for 10,000 you can probably make a bulletproof yaris.
Think about it... SOCKS has a very solid turbo kit he is selling right now. He is selling it for 4 grand, plug it in, bolt it on, lets go.
For 10 grand you can buy a tib (mine was 3k), turbo it, build the engine, bodykit, rims, and a cheap paint, springs, exhaust, and some other randoms all for under 10 grand. People are just plain DUMB.
Thought you might like to see that and get a laugh too lmao.gif
A very good friend of mine bought a Toyota Yaris (She's a girl, not into tuning in the slightest, its a slushbox anyways). So I was on the phone with her tonight and we've been joking around about her car turning into a tuner car. Right now she is making dinner for herself and told me she'll call me back and I should look for parts for her, jokingly of course.
Well... I got bored. So I started looking at parts. Intakes, headers, exhaust, and of course, the turbo option.
I found myself at a Yaris forum. I tried finding anyone who has turboed their yaris. I found one particular thread that just made me quit searching....
**ahem**
210HP... Be prepared for new Internals (Cams, Pistons) New Clutch and Flywheel... Along with the Turbo, Inter-cooler, Cold Air Intake, Pipes, Coil-Overs, Dampers, Rims, Tires, LSD, ECU retard, and a new engine after you blow the car up your first day at the Track!
210HP on a car that weighs less then a TON...
Your looking at about $8,000 - $10,000
Plus the price of the car...$13,000ish
$21 - $23 Grand
Next time buy a TC!
I want to cry. for 10,000 you can probably make a bulletproof yaris.
Think about it... SOCKS has a very solid turbo kit he is selling right now. He is selling it for 4 grand, plug it in, bolt it on, lets go.
For 10 grand you can buy a tib (mine was 3k), turbo it, build the engine, bodykit, rims, and a cheap paint, springs, exhaust, and some other randoms all for under 10 grand. People are just plain DUMB.
Thought you might like to see that and get a laugh too lmao.gif
02-05-2008, 03:14 PM
#4
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Washington D.C.
Posts: 11,992
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Vehicle: Hyundai Tiburon FX
you can spend all the money you want, hook up a car all you want, enjoy the thrill of it all you want... but your life shouldn't be in the hands of anything that weighs less than a ton fing02.gif
i hear way too many stories. even mini coopers are not all safe. hell even tiburons aren't for the matter.
i hear way too many stories. even mini coopers are not all safe. hell even tiburons aren't for the matter.
02-05-2008, 07:10 PM
#5
Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Arizona
Posts: 6,976
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Vehicle: N/A as in Not Applicable, not Naturally Aspirated
my yaris experience,
we rented a 2 door, us three guys (I weigh 135lbs, other guy weighs 165, other one is a hefty 230-250..), to drive to Bakersfield, CA from Prescott, AZ for a race event (not in the Yaris, we were corner marshals and timing/scoring for NASA at the time). It was THE cheapest rental I have ever rented, and we could NOT stop saying "Yaris" and laughing afterwards for the entire trip..
Now, I have been up to 24,000ft above the ground in a 4 seat airplane (turboprop) and NEVER have I experienced the crosswinds that we did in that Yaris on I-40 East towards Cali... omfg.gif
I swear Aaron, the ~250lb guy, was the ONLY thing holding our puny little 150's to the floor.
I don't really remember the night prowling in the yaris after the beer garden, but I BET is was a good time
eff the yaris! yar... pirate.gif
we rented a 2 door, us three guys (I weigh 135lbs, other guy weighs 165, other one is a hefty 230-250..), to drive to Bakersfield, CA from Prescott, AZ for a race event (not in the Yaris, we were corner marshals and timing/scoring for NASA at the time). It was THE cheapest rental I have ever rented, and we could NOT stop saying "Yaris" and laughing afterwards for the entire trip..
Now, I have been up to 24,000ft above the ground in a 4 seat airplane (turboprop) and NEVER have I experienced the crosswinds that we did in that Yaris on I-40 East towards Cali... omfg.gif
I swear Aaron, the ~250lb guy, was the ONLY thing holding our puny little 150's to the floor.
I don't really remember the night prowling in the yaris after the beer garden, but I BET is was a good time
eff the yaris! yar... pirate.gif
02-26-2008, 07:21 PM
#8
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: home
Posts: 1,377
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Vehicle: car
Yeah, considering you could buy a nice lexus IS300 for that or something similar... Or a 350z, rsx S, miata, SRT-4, newer eclipse, etc.
If you want gas milage, buy an I3 metro. lol
If you want gas milage, buy an I3 metro. lol